Vehicle-tire.



No. 66|,6|4. Patented Nov. la, |900.

A. H. MARKS.

vEHlcLE TIRE.

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEETCE.

ARTHUR HUDSON MARKS, OFAKRON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TOTHE DIAMOND RUBBER-COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

VEHICLE-TIRE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 661,614, dated November 13, 1900.

Application filed March 3l, 1900. Serial No. 10,930. {No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR HUDSON MARKS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Akron, in the county of Summit and State of .5 Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Vehicle-Tires, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

io My invention relates to the type of rubber tires for vehicle-wheels which are held on a flanged rim by means of wires embedded in the tire. In tires of this sort the holes in which the wires lie soon become worn, wherer fore the wires can no longer be relied upon to perform their functions. therefore useless and must be discarded, notwithstanding the fact that in many cases the tires are in other respects adapted for conzo siderable use.

The object of my invention is to produce a tire which when the holes in which the wires lie become too much enlarged to permit the wires to perform their functions does not bez 5 come entirely useless.

To that end the tire consists of an annular outside member containing a longitudinal recess and a removable core fitted to said recess and containing longitudinal holes in which 3o the wires lie, said parts being constructed substantially as described, whereby when the tire is on the Wheel-rim its parts are securely locked together.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional perspective view of a part of the tire embodying my invention and of a flanged rim upon which it is adapted to be held. Fig. 2 is a sectional perspective view of a part of the core, and Fig. 3 is a sectional perspective view of a part 4o of the-outer section of the tire.

Referring to the parts by letters, A represents the outside member, in which is the Alongitudinal recess a, which extends throughout its length. These tires are commonly made in longstraight strips, which are bent into annular form when they are put onto the wheel-rims. The finished tire, however, is an annulus, and consequently the recess aabove referred to may properly be called au an- 5o nular recess. The outside member is split through what will be the inner periphery of pleted tire of annular form.

The tires are the finished tire, said split extending through to the recess o. for the purpose of making it easy to insert or remove the core B. This core fits and fills this recess and is in a com-` In it are formed the longitudinal holes b, in which the fastening-Wires C are inserted.

When a tire having the described characteristics is placed Vu pon a ianged wheel-rim- 6o as, for example, the rim D-and the wires C are tightened and their ends fastened in the usual or'any suitable manner, the core B is obviously held upon said rim and it in turn holds the outer section A down upon the rim,

while the rim-flanges d tend to prevent the lateral spreading of the side of said outer section. Greater security against this lateral spreading of the outer section is provided by means of the ribs 0.', which are formed on the 7o outside member at the edges of the slit therein and which project into the recess aand enter a groove b', formed in the core to receive them. Whatever wear is occasioned by the wire is suffered by the core alone, and therefore if 75k the wire-holes become too large this core may be removed and another core substituted. The outside member may be used until it is worn by means other than the retaining-wires. This core is preferably made of a plurality of 8o plies of fabric and rubber or rubber-covered fabric, substantially as shown Ain the drawings, which construction generally strengthens it and renders it much more long-lived and capable of resisting the wear of the wires than it would be if made of rubber alone.

The outer section A is also strengthened by making that part thereof which surrounds the core A out of a plurality of plies of fabric and rubber or rubber-covered fabric, sub- 9o stantially as shown.

Having described my invention, I claiml. In a rubber tire, the combination of an outside member containing a longitudinal recess, and having its inner Wall slitted, with a removable core which is fitted into said recess, and longitudinal fastening-wires in said core, substantially as specified. A

2. In a rubber tire, the combination of an outside member containing a longitudinal recess, and having its inner wall slitt-ed, and having inwardly-extended ribs at the edge of IOO theslit, with a core fitted to said recessaud section containing, in that part thereof. which surrounds said recess, a plurality of plies of fabric, with a core fitted to said recess, and longitudinal fastening-Wi res passing through said core, substantially as specied. l

4. In a rubber tire, the combination of an outside member containing a recess, and having its inner kWall slited, with a core fitted 15 to said recess and made up of a plurality of plies ofrubber and fabric, and longitudinal fastening-Wires in said core, substantially as specified. recess and having its inner wall slitted', said Intestimony whereof I hereunto affix my zo signature inthe presence of two Witnesses.

ARTHUR HUDSON MARKS.

Witnesses:

N. J. ALLEN, O. S. HART. 

